#holdshelf: September 2012

Sometimes you make a grand entrance, and sometimes you just…enter. The first #holdshelf of of the year is in the latter category. We’ll save the fanfare for October – today, it’s just the nuts and bolts.

Starting a couple years back, I began snapping monthly pictures of the books on hold at my school libraries. I wanted to show, in unfiltered glory, the books kids were lining up to read. Last year I teamed up with Our Nation’s Foremost Librarian (just a nickname I’m testing out) – John Schumacher – to make the snapping of hold shelf pictures a participatory event.

This time out, I’ll just be sharing our shelves – no big gallery – but you can still take part. Tweet a hold shelf pic with the hashtag #holdshelf, or post a hold shelf photo on your blog. You can also follow the #holdshelf board on Pinterest.

Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.

Comments

I always enjoy seeing what your kids have on hold – often different from what I have kids asking for at my public library! Looking at Mr. Schu’s list, sadly, made me realize how many books in those graphic novel series have gone lost from my library. Time to reorder!

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Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com. He's also on...